Auditory System

For my thesis at the University of Buenos Aires, I implemented a computational model of the peripheral auditory system together with Prof. Manuel Eguia. Later on, we reviewed recent advances in the study of the mechanisms involved in neural processing of AM sounds and we proposed an integrated model that runs from the external ear, through the cochlea and the auditory nerve, up to a sub-circuit of the cochlear nucleus (the first processing unit in the central auditory system). We show that varying the amount of inhibition in our model we can obtain a range of best modulation frequencies in some principal cells of the cochlear nucleus. More info in this publication. This work was done with support of the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).